Neijiang Tianli International School from China is a Global Partner of IVECA

IVECA’s team is excited to welcome China to our program. Neijiang Tianli International School, located in Sichuan  is now collaborating with a  school in Australia. IVECA will integrate the two schools’ curricula to allow students to examine the history of Chinese immigration to Australia and western influence in China.  The school’s administration and faculty are excited to be working with IVECA to globalize their curriculum and expand the scope of their teaching and learning.

IVECA looks forward to sharing this journey with Neijiang Tianli International School.

Vermont Schools: Implementing New Technologies with IVECA

Vermont Schools and their partner schools across the Globe used Zoom [https://www.zoom.us] for the first time this semester. Students were able to interact with each other in real time and the video quality helped the experience become even more meaningful.

Vermont teachers also used Zoom to have lesson planning meeting with teachers across the world. During those meetings teachers were able to share their screens, annotate the screen using markup tools and text with the whiteboard features. Each participant was able to chat with individuals privately or with the whole group. They also could indicate if  they had questions with a raise hand feature.

Good Job Vermont School of bringing to IVECA new ways to communicate! Let’s become one big group of Global citizens that connect to each other via Zoom.

American and Brazilian Students Study Collaboratively about Energy and Its Effects in Daily Life

On December 10th Bellows Free Academy (USA) and Olímpio Vianna School (Brazil) had their so expected Live Class. The global exchange had as a theme the ways their respective countries have been dealing with energy and its effects in daily life. Both classrooms presented to each other the most common usage of energy and its resources.

Brazilian fifth grader Matheus C. da Silveira shared his critical thinking when mentioning “Brazil has spread throughout its territory rich vegetation consisting of rainforest […]

Unfortunately most of the population does not treat the environment as it deserves”.

American 4th-grade student, Tommy, learned about the impacts of energy usage in Brazil and demonstrated intercultural competency by relating to his peer and comparing geographical differences from both countries. He says: “I am so sorry about the damage. I learned that it’s bad to mine near huge rivers. Your country is different from our country because we don’t have many mines. I hope the damage gets fixed soon.”

After such rich sharing of knowledge, both nations inspired each other by with cultural presentations. Olímpio Vianna demonstrated how to prepare the most famous tea in Southern Brazil called Chimarrão. Bellows Free Academy engaged the Brazilians with American traditional holiday songs.

Congratulations! Bellows Free Academy and Olímpio Vianna’s students are now Global Citizens!